"This is impossible!" whined Eiko, dropping to her knees. "We've searched these dumb woods a billion times and there's nothing here!"
"I'm starting to feel the same way, Eiko…" said Dagger, wiping sweat off of her brow. "I wonder how the others are doing with their searches?"
In the distance, Zidane's voice could be heard saying, "This is driving me insane!!" as many birds flew from their nests in the trees.
"Not very well, I take it," giggled Eiko.
Dagger chuckled politely and nodded her head.
Freya walked through the dense forest, followed by Steiner, sweating heavily in his full metal armor.
"Perhaps…there is…nothing…here." panted Steiner, breathing roughly in between words.
"I'm starting to think the same thing, Steiner…but we can't give up just yet."
"Yes, I suppose you're correct. But first I think we should take a br-Oof!!"
Steiner's request was abruptly halted as he fell flat on his chest with no warning at all. Freya spun her head around to see that Steiner had tripped over a small stump with an engraving scratched into it.
"Steiner, I think you may have found what we're looking for!" Freya ran over to the fallen man and helped him up off of the ground.
"Well, um…yes, of course I have! A true knight such as myself always carries out his-"
"Steiner, please," said Freya, smiling slightly and rolling her eyes. She then looked back at the emblem on the stump. "I believe this might be the Qu symbol that Quina found on the chocograph! But what shall we do now?"
Steiner slowly touched it with the tip of his sword and quickly drew it back. After this failed to do anything, he touched it with his toe, then stood on it. When this had no effect, he began bouncing on it, then jumping, then stomping. "Nothing." he said sadly.
Freya then ran a few small tests of her own. "Th best we can do right now is call the others here, I suppose.
The two then began calling out the other's names. Zidane was the first to come. "You've found something, haven't you? Ooh, let me see! That's the symbol! This has to be it!" he then started going on and on about how they would all be rich and famous until the rest had finally arrived.
Quina made her way past the others to the stump and inspected it. "Yes, this Qu symbol. What we do to it?"
"We've tried everything, from standing on it to talking to it." explained Steiner.
"Hmmm…" said Quina, a perplexed expression sweeping her face. "I no think of anything…" she then lowed herself slowly onto the stump, still thinking of what to do.
What happened next was something that none of them would believe had ever happened. The moon, which was slowly rising in the first place, came up abruptly over their heads. After it was there, the sun quickly appeared behind it. A full eclipse occurred, and a black light engulfed Quina and the stump. The ray lifted Quina from the stump, which slowly started spinning. As the stump spun, it gradually got bigger. Suddenly, an impulse was sent to everyone's brains, giving them the urge to stand on the stump. Quina was lowered back down onto the middle of the stump. As she hit the stump, it began to lower into the ground, carrying the bewildered party with it. After they had been lowered enough, the stump did a full flip, making the occupants of it slip and fall off. The stump then started toward the surface again, trapping them in the underground lair.